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Head  Quarters  Trans-Miss.  Dept. ) 
Shreveportf,  La.,  May  26th,  1864.      ) 

CIRCULAR. 

Sir:    Your  attention  is  called  to  the  following  instructions 
from  P.  W.  Gray,  Treasury  Agent  for  the  Trans-Mississippi 
Department,  and  you  are  directed  to  comply  therewith. 
By  command  of 

General  E.  Kirby  Smith. 

W.  R.  BOGGS, 
Brig'r-Gen.  and  Chief  of  Staff. 

Agency  of  Treasury  for  Trans-Miss.  Dei*'t,  ) 

April  23d,  1864.       \ 
.The  Regulations  established  by. the  Secretary  of  the  Treas- 
ury, under  date  of  March  9th,  1864,  in  regard  to  funds  in  the 
hands  of  disbursing  officers,  modified  as  to  time,  will  be  ob- 
served by  such  officers  in  this  Department,  viz  : 

1st.  Checks  drawn  by  disbursing  officers  on  the  Treasury,  or 
any  Depository,  previous  to  the  1st  of  July,  1864,  will  be  paid 
in  Treasury  notes  of  the  present  issues  only,  at  the  amount 
promised  on  the  face  of  the  notes,  whether  the  checks  be  pre- 
sented for  payment  before  or  alter  said  date. 

2d.  All  moneys  belonging  to  the  Government,  in  the  hands 
or  at  the  credit  of  disbursing  officers  on  the  1st  of  July,  1864, 
may  be  turned  into  the  Treasury  to  the  credit  of  the  respective 
appropriations  to  which  they  belong,  to  be  afterwards  drawn 
for  by  new  requisitions,  which  will  be  payable  in  the  new  issue 
of  Treasury  notes.  But  checks  of  disbursing  officers,  which 
may  be  drawn  at  any  time  against  the  balances  which  may  be 
at  their  credit  on  the  1st  of  July,  1864,  will  be  paid  in  the  old 
issues  of  notes,  at  the  amount  promised  on  their  face. 

P.  W.  GRAY, 

Agent  of  Treasury 

for  Trans-Miss.  Dep't. 


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